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punkndisorderly wrote:I tend to agree with several of the talking heads that I've heard over the last several months: Obama will likely limit what he does between now and the election. He may do one of two "small" measures that the majority of Americans will not notice, not understand, etc. so that he can claim a victory for his base. Maybe a magazine ban, maybe something else.

If he gets reelected, I think all bets are off. He'll push for anything he can possibly get passed and anything he can't get passed he'll try to get done by executive order, his control of the BATFE, FBI, ICE, etc.

A magazine ban is not such a small thing. Any such ban would automatically render illegal ALL of my M1A magazines, ALL BUT 2 of of my AR 15 magazines, and ALL of my wife's Glock 19 magazines. That's several hundred dollars worth of magazines, suddenly illegal. Not such a small thing at all—not to mention that it will have NO effect on crime. I don't think he'll be able to get too much done by executive fiat. He may try, but he would fail and it will be the death knell for the democrat party—plus there are a number of democrat congressmen who would defy him and urge him not to do it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle ... print.html

On March 30, the 30th anniversary of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, Jim Brady, who sustained a debilitating head wound in the attack, and his wife, Sarah, came to Capitol Hill to push for a ban on the controversial “large magazines.” Brady, for whom the law requiring background checks on handgun purchasers is named, then met with White House press secretary Jay Carney. During the meeting, President Obama dropped in and, according to Sarah Brady, brought up the issue of gun control, “to fill us in that it was very much on his agenda,” she said.

“I just want you to know that we are working on it,” Brady recalled the president telling them. “We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.”

I've had several democrat members of this board express to me that this administration isn't pursuing gun control because they know it's the third rail of politics. But when you've got the president himself telling the namesake of the Brady Foundation that they ARE working on gun control, just under the radar, I have to believe that A) they are; and B) if so, why are our democrat friends continuing to support this president?